The content of this post refers to my old host, Beigetower. Some of the things here don’t apply. As always, I take zero responsibility for outdated content. You’ve been warned!

I realize that my site has been crashing all day. Sorry about that. (Miraculously, Saille managed to leave a comment right in the midst of all this hoodah. Nicely done!)

The goal: Super-Ultra-Mega Clean Permalinks
I want the links on my site to be as ultra clean as possible. Here’s what I’m thinking for a URI scheme:
http://isaacschlueter.com/ will bring you to the “all blogs” page that I’ve always kept in the index.php.
http://isaacschlueter.com/blog will bring you to my main blog, #2. BUT, there is no “/blog”, there is only “/blog.php.” (For some reason, I’m reminded of that little bald kid in the Matrix. “Once you realize that there is no .htaccess, then it is only yourself that Rewrites.” Playing with regexes’ll do that to a guy.)
http://isaacschlueter.com/blog/2004/05 will show all the posts in May, 2004.
http://isaacschlueter.com/blog/2004/05/18/fun_with_htaccess will show this post.
As you can see from poking around the links here, I’ve got it pretty much there. I stuck this in my .htaccess file:# Extra Super Duper Clean URLs
RewriteRule (^[^\./]+)$ $1\.php
RewriteRule (^[^\./]+)/([^\.]*)(.html)$ $1\.php/$2$3
RewriteRule (^[^\./]+)/([^\.]*)$ $1\.php/$2Then, in the backoffice, I stripped the “.php” from the stub url/names of all my blogs. Beautiful.

Except that I can’t go into the backoffice to write anything. It says “admin.php” could not be found.

In 0.9, you can display a blog by passing the name of the stub file to a slick little script that they stuck in index.php. With that feature, and my newly acquired .htaccess wizardry, you can visit http://isaacschlueter.com/index/projects and see blog #3. I can set it up to view that way, and then get rid of the stub file.

But, “index” doesn’t mean anything. Also, http://isaacschlueter.com/2004/05 doesn’t show you the posts in May, 2004. It returns a big fat 404, stating the “2004.php” could not be found.

Fooey.

Here’s what I want for a scheme:
URI: http://site.com/foo/bar/1/2/3/

If there’s no folder named foo

If there’s no script named foo

Rewrite to /index.php/foo/bar/1/2/3

If there’s a script named foo.php

Rewrite to /foo.php/bar/1/2/3

If there’s a folder called foo

If there’s no folder called /foo/bar

If there’s a script called /foo/bar.php

Rewrite to /foo/bar.php/1/2/3

If there’s no script called /foo/bar.php

Rewrite to /foo/index.php/bar/1/2/3

etc.

Maybe I’ll fix whatever I broke with _feedback.php for this skin. For now, if you wanna leave a comment, and you don’t see a form below, drop it in another skin. To quote the Immortal and All Powerful God, in his last great and firey words to humankind,
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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